Cambridge Independent Press 2 Aug 1856: fowls stolen from Alfred Moore
FOWL STEALING. — Thomas Mayes, a ticket-of-leave man, remanded from Friday, at Mr. Barlow’s office, on the charge of stealing five fowls from Trumpington, on Tuesday night, the 22nd inst., the property of Mr. Moore, of that place, was brought up for further examination. Mr. BAYS appeared for the prosecution, and said that the woman Susan Webb, with whom he cohabited, would also be charged, she, as tenant of the house where the fowls were found, having a guilty knowledge of the robbery. — A. Moore said that on Wednesday morning he missed the fowls from an out-house adjoining the Trumpington Mill. He had seen the fowls in possession of the policeman, and he could swear to them as being his property; he knew one of them by a place on the head, caused by the feathers being picked off. — P.s. Robinson said that he searched the house occupied by the female prisoner, where he apprehended Mayes; saw a boiler in which fowls had been cooked. P.c. Long said that he searched the house alluded to, which is situate in Barnwell, and under a sofa he found two fowls, now produced. — Mayes, in reply to questions put by the officer, said that he knew nothing at all about them. —Both prisoners were committed to the Sessions. —Mayes said that he did not live with Webb, and he thought it was very hard that he should be blamed for stealing the fowls. He knew that his character was bad, but he did not see why he should be blamed for everything that was done. After making this statement, it was with some difficulty that the policemen were enabled (in consequence of his violence) to remove him from the room.